@ Hoover Elementary
Agenda:
-Podcasts
-PTA donation $$
-Reading Month
-Preview Books and Sales People
-Children's Book Week in November
-Book Review Blogs
Summary of the Meeting
CoLibri
Jeff Gamble from CoLibri conducted a brief training on how to use the CoLibri book covering machine
Podcasts
Nonfiction and biography podcasts will be done with 4th or 5th graders this year
Lincoln and Foster have already begun their podcasts
A file with templates is available on the librarians’ wikipage
PTA Donation
PTA has donated $400.00 to each library
Discussed how to order through Follett and have PTA send Follett a check directly
Reading Month
Reading Month is PTA driven
Other reading/library events are conducted through the year such as: DEAR, The Academy Awards of Books, and Book Month
Preview Books and Sales People
Is there a district policy about meeting sales people?
Book sale reps. call very often and are difficult to get off the phone
Some companies make it easy to preview books because they send a return label so that the book can be returned
Children’s Book Week
November 12th-16th
Ideas for the week included a paperback exchange and trivia
Book Review Blogs
Idea to do book reviews with 4th and 5th grades
Students will need to know their Dashboard usernames and passwords
A blog can be requested by going to “Request a Blog” on MTLSD Home
Author Visit
Kalli Dakos was discussed
Other
Bid List- must be returned to Nancy Campbell by October 25th
Agenda:
-Podcasts
-PTA donation $$
-Reading Month
-Preview Books and Sales People
-Children's Book Week in November
-Book Review Blogs
Summary of the Meeting
CoLibri
Podcasts
PTA Donation
Reading Month
Preview Books and Sales People
Children’s Book Week
Book Review Blogs
Author Visit
Other